Imprinted Female Peales x Calidus from 2010

Shown on these photos is "Zilli", my female peales x calidus. I think this cross of falcons has the biggest feet. Zilli has a very easy-going nature and started courtshipping before she was hard-penned. The photo proves it.

"Krafi", Joe´s granddaughter

Here sits "Krafi", a granddaughter of my famous pealestiercel "Joe" bred by Joe Taggart. Her father is the pealestiercel "Joeson" and her mother a peregrine out of the well-known crowhunting line of Jürgen Schuster and Kurt Fessler. What is amazing with this medium-sized peregrine (hunting weight about 900 grams)is the fact that she has two pure white feathers exactly at the same place as her grand-father "Joe". In Joe´s adult plumage they are more difficult to see but after some searching it should be possible to find them. A photo of Joe can be seen in the peales section.

"Bonnie"

The female peregrine shown on this photo is "Bonnie", a daughter of my peales tiercel "Joeson" and a huge female Scottish peregrine. "Bonnie" is an imprint bred by me in 2005. Last year she surprised me with 6 eggs at the age of two years! I am not used that such big peregrines lay before their third or fourth year! Unfortunately she did not stand to copulation and I did not want to catch and force her. This year she is very hostile, too. Somewhere I made a mistake in imprinting this bird. She is nasty and I have already plenty of scars from her.
I flew "Bonnie" in 2005. The weight of her first free flight was exactly 1000 grams. I flew her up to 1170 grams. Now in the pen she weighs 1250 during summer and 1350 to 1400 grams in December and January. She is some kind of monster peregrine. Shoulder to tail: 39,5 cm ; Breast: 42,5 cm. She is a really broad shouldered and stocky bird. I can only hope that she will accept copulation in the near future!

"Leandra"

The immature bird shown on this photo is "Leandra", a peales x dark Austrian peregrine cross. In 2007 I sold some peales peregrine semen to an Austrian falconer who bred this female. After the hunting season he had not enough place to keep her and therefore I bought her. He told me that he flew her at about 950 grams. Before I placed her in the pen for the moult she already weighed 1150 grams.

I really like her dark colour and her blue feet. Her father, "Joe", was a tiercel I bought and imported in 1994 from Joe Taggert, Idaho, USA. At that time the tiercel was 3 years old and had still blue feet when he arrived! He died in the autumn of 2007 two months before I bought back his daughter. In my breeding stock I have plenty of youngs and grandchildren from "Joe". His son "Joeson", a pure peales, too, is now my main stud bird. For more details of "Joe" go to the "peales" section.